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I've added a considerable bit to the original draft of this page to give it the preferred "global" flavor. I would greatly apprecaite input from Wikipeia editors in various countries to chime in on: 1.) Your nation's laws concerning antique guns, and 2.) Lists of gun makers that are popular with collectors in your nation. Thanks! - Jeff Trasel

For what it's worth, the "1898" cut-off date is rather arbitrary... I know it's the US legal cut-off date, but in Australia the date is 1901, and the UK has no specific date. There were no advances in firearms technology that made a gun made in 1897 any different from one made in 1901, and so I think the entire article may need a reworking from "Guns made before (SPECIFIC DATE)" to "Pre- WWI era firearms for which you can no longer get ammunition", which seems to encompass most firearms that could reasonably be considered "Antique" without getting into semantics over which country's cut-off date should be used. --Commander Zulu 13:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, folks. With all that has been recently added to give this wiki entry an international flavor, can we now safely drop the "Template:Globalize/USA" flag? OBTW, I would greatly apprecaite input from readers in other countries that have large numbers of antique gun collectors, such as Belgium, Finland, France, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland. Please add the brands/makers that are popular, plus anything substantive on your national gun laws regarding antiques. Many Thanks! - Jeff Trasel, 17 February 2007

To follow up on my most recent note, unless I hear otherwise, I plan to drop the "Template:Globalize/USA" flag tomorrow. I think that I have more than sufficiently "internationalized" this wiki entry. - Jeff Trasel, 19 February 2007

Seems fair to me. --Commander Zulu 00:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm assuming that we've collectively now done sufficient editing on this article to justify dropping the "Cleanup" flag. Your thoughts, folks? If I don't hear otherwise, I will remove the Cleanup flag in a couple of days. Thanks. Jeff Trasel, 25 February 2007

[edit] Re-write

I've embarked on a re-write of the article, as there's some great information in there, but it's not presented especially clearly IMHO. Also, the article was in danger of becoming "List of 19th Century Gunmakers" and "Antique Arms Regulations"... this is an important topic, and deserves a thorough, engaging, and top-shelf article, as I'm sure you'll all agree! --Commander Zulu 08:47, 4 May 2007 (UTC)